[POLL] NNTP support for Cyrus?

Scott Russell lnxgeek at us.ibm.com
Wed Sep 25 00:31:39 EDT 2002


On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:23:11AM -0400, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Scott Russell wrote:
> 
> > I'm a bit surprised at the need for nntp READ support though when
> > anonymous IMAP mailboxes can be setup instead. I would guess though
> > that people would be more failure with a 'newsgroup' than an
> > anonymous IMAP mailbox.
> 
> Well, the news readers tend to be better at reading shared mailboxes than
> most IMAP clients.


I'm mostly ignorant of anonymous IMAP. I understand the concepts but
haven't used it, unless you count the web interface to the cyrus lists?

Will news readers, like slrn and pan, support anonymous IMAP mailboxes
or did I not understand what you were saying?

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